Originally Posted by
ItsJustMe
If you're writing for a college English course, you should definitely determine the difference between peddle and pedal before submitting your final version.
Also, proper typography generally puts two spaces after a period.
Generally, you want to use one space after a period. The two space rule originated from typewriters where it was difficult to see the end of a sentence.
Of course this is all moot since multiple consecutive whitespace is collapse into one space in HTML.